Dangerous Delaware: Swimmers urged to beware, but they aren't bannedMarquis Richardson was supposedly a strong swimmer. After the 22-year-old Virginia man had ... Witnesses reported that Scott was about halfway to the island when he began having trouble staying afloat and went under. The body of Scott, who had left his ...08/2/2015 - 10:02 am | View Link

New Zealand's Glenn Synders misses 100m breaststroke semifinals at world champsNew Zealand swimmer Glenn Synders narrowly missed making the semifinals ... Synders was third at the 50m halfway mark but could not sustain the performance and was run down. The heat was the fastest of the day being won by Great Britain's Adam Peaty ...08/2/2015 - 8:44 am | View Link

Katie Ledecky, Sun Yang open quests for history with golds at World ChampionshipsShe was around one second under her 2014 world-record pace halfway through the race ... where it competed save the 2001 Worlds when it was disqualified for using a swimmer who wasn’t on the event entry list. In the women’s 100m butterfly semifinals ...08/2/2015 - 4:49 am | View Link

Md.’s Katie Ledecky cruises to win in 400-meter freestyle heatan 18-year-old Bethesda native who has become the world’s dominant distance swimmer, went out in blistering fashion — a 27.79 time in her first 50 meters, then 57.16 for 100 meters. She was still ahead of her own world record pace at the halfway point ...08/2/2015 - 12:21 am | View Link

Mullen sets European Record on day two of British Summer ChampsIn the Men’s 16yrs 200m Freestyle, Harrison Coulter had a two second lead at the halfway point but the rest of field put pressure on the Stockport Metro swimmer and only 0.6 seconds separated the gold medallist from Charlie Humphries (Nova Centurion ...07/29/2015 - 9:54 am | View Link

Swimming: Health and Disease PreventionWhat are the swimming strokes? Breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly, and crawl (freestyle) are the most popular swim strokes. The breaststroke and butterfly are more ...08/2/2015 - 9:27 am | View Website

The Daily News of Open Water SwimmingCourtesy of Lane Vail for Natural Awakenings. Bostonian avid open-water swimmer Kate Radville is delighted that water constitutes 70 percent of the Earth’s surface.08/2/2015 - 8:23 am | View Website

SwimmingHoles.info Pennsylvania Swimming Holes and Hot ...Do you use DeLorme, MapPoint or other mapping software that accepts user-supplied latitude/longitude files? E-mail us for a file of lat/lon for all the swimming holes ...08/2/2015 - 6:07 am | View Website